Word: anti-british
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...demanded and got appropriations totaling $38,240,000 more than last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively anti-British," or at the very least, bold gestures by the southern master of the new Axis: 1) Italy's war games will be held this year not on the Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were...
...highest official quarters the pact of Eagle & Lion was said to have been supplemented by a verbal "gentlemen's understanding," not strictly binding, but to the effect that London and Rome anticipate: 1) cessation by the extremely powerful Italian radio station at Bari of its anti-British broadcasts in the languages of the Near East; 2) disintegration of the British ''Mediterranean accords" with France, Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even...
Britain was not feeling conciliatory. Publicly in the House of Commons last week Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson charged Italy not only with fomenting the anti-Jewish, anti-British rioting in Palestine, but with spreading anti-British propaganda in India...
...Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet to the garrisons of Malta and Egypt. There is even talk of closing the Suez Canal." Censor Wilkinson found no fault with a long sequence depicting the manner in which the League of Nations Union had polled more people than had ever voted for a British party, to discover that 11,000,000 were...
...party and picked El Nahas Pasha for his lieutenant. In Egypt, as elsewhere, lawyers supply most of the popular leaders and El Nahas Pasha is one of the ablest, most belligerent of Egypt's lawyers. A forceful speaker, he fired the fuse to last year's anti-British rioting, said: "We want to be Britain's ally, not her vassal...